"was initially formulated" is correct and is commonly used in written English.
It is typically used to describe the original formulation or idea of something, which may have been revised or changed later on. Example: The company's marketing strategy was initially formulated to target young adults, but after conducting market research, it was revised to focus on a broader age range.
Countering a difference dilemma requires undermining the way the issue was initially formulated (more accurately, mal-formulated).
The tower embodies the Miesian aesthetic through which the Modern's design department's taste was initially formulated.
While Galvus and Januvia are very similar, Januvia may have an edge because it clearly works as a once-a-day pill, while Galvus was initially formulated to be taken twice daily, Mr. Evans said.
The relationship between the chemical affinity of the reactants in the cell and the voltage of the cell when it is operating was precisely defined by the U.S. chemist Josiah Willard Gibbs in 1875, while the relation of this affinity to the potential of the electrochemical cell was initially formulated by the German physical chemist Walther Hermann Nernst in 1889.
It was initially formulated in Economics to measure the income distribution using the Lorenz curve.
One of the most studied mathematical bodies for catalytic networks was initially formulated in the context of prebiotic evolution, by means of the hypercycle theory.
In classical mechanics the laws are initially formulated for point particles in which the dimensions, shapes, and other intrinsic properties of bodies are ignored.
A sixth-order system consisting of three second-order equations is initially formulated with the aid of a normal strain ignored in FSDT.
A multimodal model of fluid sloshing within a baffled cylindrical tank is initially formulated using potential flow equations and linearized free-surface boundary condition considering maneuver-induced vehicle motions along the lateral, vertical and roll axes.
A boundary element method is initially formulated to solve the spectral problem of free liquid slosh using the zoning method involving the velocity potentials alone of the half free-surface length, which significantly increases the computational efficiency.
Our model is initially formulated as a Linear Program with exponentially many constraints, and then reformulated in a more compact manner so that it can be very efficiently solved in practice.
